Good Beer Article

Slate has an article on the communal beer rankings of sites like BeerAdvocate.  The article states that the wide variety of reviews from regular beer drinkers are probably more accurate and drive brewers to make better beers than wine reviews.  I liked this quote:

Ordinary beer lovers actually believe that their opinions matter, and they’re pretty much right.

Heck yeah!  And pretentious ordinary beer lovers can write a beer blog, too.